varela at unm.edu wrote:
: I apoligize if this is a FAQ. I made a Blast search, the results of
: which we are about to publish. Naturally I would like to give credit to
: those who wrote the program, etc. So my question is: what is the
: reference I should use? Is there in fact a paper to cite?
Altschul, SF, W Gish, W Miller, EW Myers, and DJ Lipman. 1990. JMB 214:1-8.
Basic local alignment search tool.
This citation should be in the header from a BLAST search.
: Also, since I've lost my documentation about Blast (which is why I'm
: asking these questions), how can I retrieve any documentation about it?
: Gophering around didn't work.
If you have only gopher around, try Amos Bairoch's SeqAnalRef on
gopher.gdb.org
You might also try NCBI's gopher/FTP server
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
though I think you have to get the entire BLAST distribution
If you have access to the WWW (e.g. via Mosaic), then take a look
directly at NCBI's server
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
where there is a page on BLAST. Or, take a look at my little write-up on BLAST
http://twod.med.harvard.edu/seqanal/blast.html
Enjoy!
Keith Robison
Harvard University
Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology
Department of Genetics / HHMI
robison at mito.harvard.edu